New "Commodore" products, should I carry them?

[weirdami]

A MP3 player, some USB memory sticks, and a joystick stuffed with C64 games.. But I suppose they will add stuff to sell.. Commodore toothpaste perhaps ?  

How about toilets? The could call them Commode-ors. :-D

/me refrains from typing a pun about prophylactics. :oops:

[jeffimix]

@Graffias

maybe they'll just put in a DSP that's 50x faster to emulate it.

[melott]

Hmmm.. I din't know about the C=64 stuff But...
I'm sure that if you could get the right to re-produce
some GFX card like the Picasso IV, compatable to
Zorro 2,3 and 4. Sell them at about $125.00. You would
sell a bunch. Just look at what used cards are going
for on EBay.

[redrumloa]

Sell them at about $125.00.

Naaah, that price would compete with the Prometheus;-) Actually I had a few new cards in mind that could have been developed in a very short period of time, a zorro III Voodoo card was one of them. Unfortunately the classic Amiga market has proved to be far to small for practically ANY new hardware.

[melott]

I didn't mean to develope a new GFX card.
All the work has been done on the Picasso IV, I use it
as an example because of its compatibility to all the
Classics. The card doesn't need to be improved, just
start producing them again. They would sell like 'Hot Cakes' :-D

[DonnyEMU]

I have had the opportunity to play the Atari 2600, Activision, and Namco Joystics.. After playing the Atari joystick I went right home and unearthed my old Atari 2600 from the closet and plugged it to the tv (a little difficult today because of the RF modulator). I couldn't really tell a difference between the old games and the new ones (with the exception that some of them use paddles which obviously isn't available as the controller). I played "Adventure" and I found the same Easter Eggs I could find in the original cart in the new game..

If a C-64 joystick comes out and these things only cost $20-25 I will run out and get it because of the quality of the already developed "retro packages". The intellivision 25 product is awesome as well. Now if they just come out with a colecovision controller I will be happy.

Anyway, this discussion seems silly to me after having played these games, and seeing tons of emulation products (like the VICE emulator). This is just downright "silly" to question the quality of these products, they  are fun and they look good. Folks here need to learn you probably will never have your original equipment back but you don't need to, to still enjoy the games.. If you are worried about carrying something, play test it yourself. These are really cool things that they are doing. Even if they use a processor that is 1000x better than the original equipment, if the spirit of the original is there who cares.

Personally I think these "tv games" are great.. Whoever thought of them and the marketing concept was great. Don't knock it until you try it. I hope the joystick they do bring out isn't a replica of the original Joystick hardware from commodore, I hated it and put a 2600 style controller in there instead..